Web gallery or slideshow, non-Flash, for mobile devices needed

Hi,
My website -- www.johnblaustein.com -- is all Flash and I'm getting some mild complaints from viewers who would like to see my work on an iPad or iPhone. I built my galleries with SlideShowPro and I know Todd at SSP is working on a mobile device solution. In the meantime, however, I'm wondering if anyone here has some solutions they might share. The iPhone screen is so small that I find thumbnails to be just about useless and navigation difficult. I'm wondering if there is a Lr solution that will produce a web gallery or slideshow that will run full-screen on a mobile device with a simple next and previous button. I'm even thinking I might just do a limited portfolio as a video file with no navigation at all.
Any thoughts?
Thank you.
John

John,
Unless I go for mobile support, I am doing just fine as-is with SSP/LR. I understand the benefits of Director, but at this point I don't have the energy to learn yet another application... unless I really need to. I trust you that learning Director won't be as complicated as I am imagining, but at the moment "it ain't broke, so I don't want to fix it."
I do all my site work myself with Lightroom, SSP and Dreamweaver, so I agree that I could probably get up and running with Director fairly easily. The time will come no doubt.
Thanks again for all of your comments.
I was hoping that others might chime in here with other suggestions on making mobile device web galleries, but maybe there just aren't any good ones.
John

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> San Francisco, CA 94105
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